Labels: Soledad
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Oh my good god. Talk about a release that could have come out on Gravity when they put out Heroin, Mohinder, Second Storey Window, etc…
Han*Shan are fucked to buggery. Psychopathic hardcore. They sound like a cross between Born Against and John Henry West. First track, “In Autumn” is even a little emo-ey and my favourite of the numerous songs wedged onto this 7″ piece of vinyl. Everything flies out of control and falls apart whilst the vocalist yelps and screams and cries. Drums career downhill whilst the music flails and collapses in a dirty heap on the floor. Definitely how I want hardcore to sound – unashamed of being terribly lo-fi, messy or absurd. Double thumbs up for this one. Also, it keeps up the West tradition by being packaged in ultra DIY fashion in a manilla envelope. You need this, or you’re guilty of accepting the status quo of boredom that hardcore is afflicted by (P.S. this might be really old actually, not sure when it was pressed or re-pressed even, but it recently turned up in some distros).